I’ve never read the Harry Potter books and I will most likely never read them either. I just don’t like reading fiction. But I do like the movie adaptations of these books. They’re the movies I wanted to see as a young boy. Just like today, back then I hungered for intelligent story telling with multi-dimensional characters. Oh yeah and kick ass special effects. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has all these ingredients and yet the magic was missing. I think that following up on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was a bigger task than anticipated. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was dark and moody and ended in a magical element that simply couldn’t be redone without rehashing.
But I digress. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire has its qualities and presents us with a fantastic evolution of the story arc and the characters. Although becoming over-populated, the Potter-verse is richer and more mature. Not to sound cliché, but the kids have grown up quite a bit. The actors are looking older than their roles but one can overlook that easily.
The story is simple and yet complicated because as we all know, every movie/book is simply en embedded story in a bigger story. This fourth year starts out with a Quidditch World Cup with our heroes in attendance only. But soon enough all hell breaks loose as the encampments around the tournament are fireballed into ashes. This is all a plot to isolate young Harry who’s been having dreams of nefarious happenings in house and a cemetery. Because you see, Lord Voldemort is plotting his resurrection. And of course Mr. Potter is saved in time for the ringing of the school bell to yet another year of spell casting and peripecies.
School starts and as with all new years comes new challenges. This year’s challenge is the Triwizard Tournament in which only seniors can participate. The tournament consists of three very difficult challenges that can kill you or your friends. Attending the tournament are 2 other schools. One is a French wizardry school for girls only and the other is a boy’s school from Roumania. But Harry’s name gets added to the goblet and once that’s done, the binding cannot be broken. So Harry must face the hardship of the tournament. I won’t say more so as to not spoil the Harry Potter Goodness.
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